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Hero and the Terror

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"Hero" Chuck Norris plays a police officer named Danny O'Brian who is haunted by his past run in with serial killer Simon Moon (The Terror). (...). There is a side story involving O'Brian's relationship with his ex-therapist. This tends to slow the movie in spots. As Chuck Norris fans we want to keep the action pace high. Hero and the Terror is one of my favorite Chuck Norris movies though it has less martial arts and more suspense and story than you may expect from one of his movies. The quality of the DVD is very good. It contains both the widescreen and standard screen format with virtually no extras. That's OK considering the budget price of this MGM release. Hero and the Terror is an essential addition to a Chuck Norris movie library. Recommended viewing.

Chuck Norris plays a detective haunted by a run-in with a serial killer that nearly cost him his life. That was a year ago, and he's now moving in with the therapist, pregnant with his baby, who helped him to deal with his encounter with the killer. But of course it isn't over. Through an apparently superhuman feat of strength, the killer escapes from prison and is back to murdering pretty young women. Chuck faces his fears and hunts the killer down.

This movie was a pleasant change of pace from the typical twenty-against-one fight scenes, explosions, and full auto gunfights. Chuck's character is tougher than any of us, but in this movie he takes his lumps physically and emotionally. He leans on his girlfriend for emotional support, and at the end of the movie we see him wisely running from the killer (after putting up a respectable fight). Although it wasn't Nicholson or Hopkins material, it was probably one of the better performances tendered by a martial arts star.

Chuck's after a nasty serial killer again! It's the mute villian from Superman 3 playing a mute villian again! Is this actor really mute or just have cruddy delivery of his lines? You get to see Chuck's sensitive side, get to see him beat up a few bad guys(the movie wouldn't feel complete without that!), and get to see him lie to the press! This one also has Superfly as the mayor, and the muscular black dude from American Ninja!(I wish he had more screen time) The serial killer's name is Simon Moon, and he's not the kind of serial killer that outsmarts and plays with cops. He's actually kind of a moron, but watch out coz he'll break your neck, boy! Doesn't it seem like most famous movie stars have to do at least one movie involving the pursuit of a serial killer? All of this and more in Hero and the Terror! Invite the guys over for a weenie roast and beer and check this one out.

Hero and the Terror stars Chuck Norris as Danny O Bryan ,a cop who puts an end to the menacing terror Simon Moon (played by Jack O Halloran) at least for the time being.Simon escapes prison and sets up shop in an abandoned movie theater thats about to reopen for business -- and killing.Chuck is top notch and this is his Best film in my opinion.It is a Grade A Action thriller that really deserved to be more.Check it out if you like a Good Suspense action film.

Chuck Norris plays Danny O'Brien, a police officer emotionally troubled by his run in with a fierce hulk of a psychopath named Simon Moon (played by Jack - Superman 2 - Halloran). When Moon escapes from a mental institution O'Brien must again face his deepest terror. Norris, as always, makes for a likable hero and director William Tannen pulls off some nice suspense sequences. This is arguably the best movie Norris made for the Cannon Group and is an essential in any fan's Chuck Norris collection.

I normally like action movies, but this one... Danny O'Brien (Chuck Norris) was nicknamed "Hero" when he stopped serial killer Simon Moon, who ended up in a psychiatric facility. Afterwards, he spent some time with a therapist (Brynn Thayer) dealing with the nightmares, and he's now living with her, and they're expecting a child.

Simon Moon escapes the hospital and makes his getaway in an ambulance, which he crashes. Everyone wants to think he's dead, but when a woman disappears from a newly renovated theater, O'Brien knows Moon is back, but nobody takes him seriously.

Thing is, this could have been a decent movie, but instead, it's just dull. We're supposed to feel for Danny and Kay, and the "heartwarming" ending, but we never got to know them beyond Danny's nightmares and discovering that Kay had been his therapist, and that she's reluctant to marry him, but considers the relationship permanent. There's a scene in a restaurant on her birthday that I think was supposed to make us sympathetic, but she ends up looking stupid, and he's so laid-back, he's nearly comatose.

I'm not sure what the point of their relationship was in the film--him trying to have a normal life, maybe, but we never see him not having the normal life, and that normal life is never threatened. If Simon Moon had captured or threatened Kay, there might have been a point.

And what's the point of making her a therapist? She's a pretty bad one--his nightmares come back, and she just says it doesn't matter because she'd already cured him. Huh? And she's seriously out of touch with her own emotions, not even aware that pregnancy heightens them. And the biggie: a romantic relationship with a patient? Not a good thing.

As for the action plot--Simon Moon was a 2-dimensional villain. There's no reason for his actions, beyond "he's evil." O'Brien knows immediately whodunit, so there's no mystery or suspense there. He also decides, without any investigating, that Simon Moon is hiding in the theater. There is a search for him, but it's long and nothing at all happens.

Maybe my biggest problem was that there was very little action to distract me from the dullness of the plot.

Hero And The Terror is a decent Chuck Norris movie. Many of his better films involved him being a cop, such as An Eye For An Eye and Code of Silence. This film is not as good as either one of those films, but it is still a fairly entertaining film.

Norris plays an LA cop who must go after a notorious serial killer after the killer ecapes from jail. Norris' life is already complicated because his fiance is pressuring him to marry her.

The climax in a old movie theater is good and entertaining, but the rest of the movie is only so-so. Hero and The Terror is not Norris' best, but it's not his worst, either.

A scary as hell movie and darn well the price of admission! I hope never to face a terror as in this movie!

I remember seeing this on VHS years ago and was really scared , but now it seems rather lame.Still if you are A Chuck fan it is a must have for your collection.Danny O'Brien is a detective who the press call the "Hero" after he captures a serial killer called Simon Moon a.k.a "The Terror".You guessed it "The Terror" escapes from jail , holes up in a movie theatre and starts his murderous ways again.Only Chuck can save the day and take on "The Terror" and win.A easy to watch film and good if you want to kill a hour and a half but I found Silent Rage a better film , still Chuck is Chuck and I have most of his films apart from Top Dog which I found really bad.

I rented this movie years ago and had some kind of nostalgic memory of how good it was. I finally bought it but was disappointed. There isnt that much action, though I still like the fight scene at the end. Its kind of awwsome how Norris keeps pounding on "the terror" but he keeps coming after him. I guess you could say there is some good character development in the character Norris plays.